Subjunctive conditionals : a linguistic analysis /
Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the occurrence of past tense morphology in both antecedent and consequent cla...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Linguistic inquiry monographs ;
65 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the occurrence of past tense morphology in both antecedent and consequent clauses. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 159 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781461943273 1461943272 1299848478 9781299848474 9780262314879 0262314878 |
| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/9780262019484.001.0001 |